January Monthly Update (Patreon)

Well, January's off to one heck of a start. After a slightly slow December, this month has positively sizzled.

Kickstarter! Oh goodness, this is a whole thing.  I'm going to be creating a hardcover book, containing quite a large amount of content. The Troubadour, Swashbuckler, and Bloodrager will all be in there, with a couple book-exclusive subs each. A whole raft of additional subclasses will be in there. All of Spells That Don't Suck, and probably about 50 more spells besides, will be in there. At least 3 mini-settings will be in there, chunks of game world you can drop seamlessly into your campaign. A pile of monsters, a pile of magic items. A tremendous amount of gorgeous art. It's gonna be awesome, folks. I'm aiming to run the campaign in late spring, with about a year to finalize the book, print it, and put it on your doorsteps.

Patreon: No big change here, though  this month did feature two commission jobs, which is unusual. I eliminated the patreon commission tiers, though - DM me, or use the form on my website, if you want to commission something.

Troubadour: Some minor revisions happening here, mostly cutting a version to throw up as PWYW on DrivethruRPG, to get visibility to audiences there. I do have a few small changes scheduled to go out, but they'll probably wait until the next major revision, which'll be a bit.

Swashbuckler: This month saw the Code of the Grimhunt! A creepy psionic swashbuckler who'll snack on your brains, given half a chance.

Bloodrager: Mostly digesting and feedback on last month's changes. Still debating whether the MADness modifier sticks around - I'm torn, because the math works out lovely, but some folks are gonna dislike the concept no matter what I do. Still have not found time to work on the Foundry module, unfortunately.

Subclasses: 4/3. Busy on this front! Our poll produced the Cometcaller Conclave, while commission jobs came in for two Kibblesbrews, the Fortressmind Warden and Illusive Mind Psion. Patrons who are in discord get a sneak peek at the Circle of the Depths, which is bound for the book. And I'm hoping to knock out another book subclass before February starts.

Species: 1/0. But, unfortunately, this one's for a Secret Project, so I can't talk much about it.

Spells: Spells That Don't Suck is scheduled for v12.0 next week! This is the final batch of spell rebalances (bar a bunch more requests). Which, tentatively, means the project is done! Or at least, phase 1 is done. There are still a couple hundred more spells that suck by virtue of not being in the SRD.

Discord: We have crept right up to the edge of 300 members, which is a lovely round number.

The plan for February:

Kickstarter: The sample doc's in progress, getting worked over by my layout designer, after which it'll go to editing. On the back end, I'm continuing to get manufacturing quotes and line up marketing plans.

Troubadour: Get it up on DTRPG!

Swashbuckler: Another feedback cycle!

Bloodrager: At least two more subclasses coming your way - 24 hours left in the supporter poll! And there's pretty high odds on three subs, there's actually another one I also want to get done this month.

Subclasses: The public February subclass poll has 24 hours left to go! Past that, I'm ramping up prework on the book, so hoping to knock 2-3 book exclusives out.

Species: Don't get crabby if you don't see one this month.

Spells: SDS v12.0 scheduled for February 6!

Secret Projects: Really need to get one of these across the finish line and shoved off the dock for public feedback, so hoping to do that in the next couple weeks.